With Chris Dreja’s death this past September 25, Yardbirds drummer Jim McCarty is the only member left who knows what each ...

During the 1960s, McCarty played with three of Britain's greatest guitarists under the Yardbirds bracket. Clapton was the ...

Dreja died of complications recently, just weeks before his 80th birthday. The guitarist suffered strokes in 2012 and 2013 ...

All these musicians we grew up with — the ones who started out in garages, basements, and living rooms before rising to international fame — became the soundtrack to our lives. They set the bar for ...

An original member of a legendary rock band is dead at age 79. The Yardbirds guitarist Chris Dreja has died, his sister-in-law Muriel Levy announced on social media. A cause of death was not named.

Chris Dreja, a musician, photographer and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member who was a co-founder of the pioneering British rock band the Yardbirds and a co-writer of many of that band’s songs, has ...

A rhythm guitarist and bassist, he was a “rock” for a band whose fiery lead players, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, had no shortage of ego. By Alex Williams Chris Dreja, a founding member of ...

Chris Dreja, co-founder of influential English rock band the Yardbirds and co-writer on many of the band’s memorable songs, died at 79. His death was announced by his former bandmate Jimmy Page. “I ...

Chris Dreja FILE PHOTO: English guitarist Chris Dreja of The Yardbirds posed backstage at Holterhallen in Holte near Copenhagen in Denmark on 15th April 1967. He recently died at the age of 79. (Photo ...

Chris Dreja, co-founder of the Yardbirds, has passed away. The musician was 79. Both his sister-in-law Muriel Levy and former bandmate Jimmy Page confirmed the news on social media. A cause of death ...

Yardbirds co-founder Chris Dreja has died at 79, according to his family. The British musician’s death was first announced on social media by his sister-in-law, Muriel Levy. She said on Wednesday that ...